A Time to Kill (1996) plays again Monday Feb 18th @ 12:15 am pacific time on HD Network Movies
The Rainmaker (1997) plays again Thursday Feb 21st @ 8:15 am pictific time on Cinemax
BOTH John Grisham courtroom dramas are EXCELLENT. A Time to Kill review and cast in an earlier post in this thread. The Rainmaker stars Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Jon Voight, Danny Glover and Mickey Rourke
The Master
Pretty good flick. I had high expectations as director Anderson's Boogie Nights is possibly my favorite all time movie, and There Will Be Blood and Hard Eight are also a couple of my favorites. Joaquin Phoenix is a spazz as usual, but you are rooting him by the end. Philip Seymour Hoffman good as always.
Not sure why Amy Adams is up for an Oscar for supporting actress. If she was on camera for 1.5 minutes I would be shocked. Not sure what's up with the Oscar people. Hundreds and thousands of movies to choose from and there wasn't a better performance from a chick who had more than a couple minutes of screen time?
Anyway, Master rambled on at times, but just as my mind was wandering, something cool brought me back. Good acting, quirky story. Not bad.
Zero Dark Thirty
Pretty good movie. Actually a lot better than I was expecting. I enjoyed seeing animals tortured in the early going. I would love to volunteer for that job.
Movie rolled along good for 120 minutes, and then came the actual Bin Laden "mission." Uhh, so borrrrring. I fast forwarded through most of it. So drawn out....screen dark...can't see. Then 10 minutes of boring aftermath where nothing happened. Ruined the movie for me. Jessica Chastain is tough to look at too. What a mug. Overall a solid 7.5, but points demoted for the chick and boring behind finale. Watching the Master again.....hitting me now how much I enjoyed it.
So pretty much saw the bulk of the "real" Oscars movies. If my vote was the final say for who gets the Oscars, my votes would be.......
Best Picture: Argo
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Supporting Actress: Really can't say...Adams and Field each were on screen for 2 minutes tops. Anne Hathaway was in a musical I couldn't get past the 22 minute mark. I have no idea who Jacki Weaver was in Silver Linings. Never heard of The Sessions for Helen Hunt.
Best Director: Ben Aff.....oh wait, he wasn't nominated. David Russell for Silver Linings Playbook.
Any other categories either I don't care about, or Batman got the shaft and never was nominated.
Got to agree with you glyde saw Argo which is about the1979 Iranian hostage crisis.and it was fantastic! Former Canadian Diplomat, Ken Taylor became an international hero following his success in sheltering the six Americans for three months. The longtime diplomat moved the Americans around to various safe houses finally managing to secure fake Canadian passports for them from Ottawa. I think it's a great reminder to both Americans/Canadians understanding the message of international co-operation and the great relationship we've always had with one another. 
I tried to watch the newest bond movie the other night, Sky Fall I think.
I fell asleep in the first hour, wasn't even that fukked up. It was really bad. It was so un-James-Bond-like.
haven't seen it yet BUT just from seeing trailers it looks like the two new "Bond Girls" in this one are NOT up to the standards set by the likes of Ursula Andress, Jane Seymour, Britt Ekland or Holly Berry 
watched Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator (2012) last night. typical Cohen loose plot of mostly sight gags and one liners some of which are "stupid funny" but many are just plain crude or offensive. probably worth watching just for the scene on the Helicopter tour where the American couple thinks "President Prime Minister Admiral General" Haffaz Aladeen (Cohen) and his former WMD Director Nadal (Jason Mantzoukas) are ploting another 9-11 attack. THAT was definately the BEST sketch in the whole movie. VERY different kind of movie role for dramatic actor Ben Kingsley as Aladeen's uncle Tamir who is trying to secretly overthrow him.
it plays on the new EPIX movie channels again Wednesday Feb 27th @ 6:30 pm and Thursday Feb 28th @ 12:50 am (pacific time). I would say 
of three
watched the classic political drama All the King's Men (1949) the other night on Turner Classic Movies. it's loosly based on the life (and assassination) of 1930's Louisiana Governor Huey Long. stars Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark (the Huey Long character) and John Ireland as his press secretary Jack Burden. won the Best Picture Oscar over others that became classics like Twelve O'Clock High. Crawford, who usually played either a cop or gangster in B-movies up until that time, won Best Actor and Mercedes McCambridge won Best Supporting Actress as the character of Sadie Burke, Stark's "campaign assistant". Ireland, who also usually played either a cop or gangster in B-movies, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor BUT lost to Dean Jagger in Twelve O'Clock High.
VERY well acted movie by all involved and it's worth watching or recording when it's on TCM OR getting from netflix.
btw, the 2006 re-make with Sean Penn as Stark and Jude Law as Burden got a lot of pre-release Oscar "hype" because of the cast and story BUT ended up a critical and financial flop 
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